Blueboatman
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I was attempting to catch mackerel off the groin and a kayaking fisherman seemed to be doing better whilst exercising ?
Getting Fit
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magicol
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Agree with others that cycling is a good way to get and keep fit. I find at my age it helps keep my legs strong without risking ankles and knees. Strength in the legs also certainly helps moving around the boat but for me the greatest benefit is swinging in and out of the forward V berth without hitting my wife! And like others, I too found it much easier to keep fit during lockdown; one of the very few benefits of the last two years.
DJE
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+1 Cycled 1600 miles so far this year but only done about 1000 on the boat. Usually it's the other way round.
Moodysailor
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Another cyclist here, it's been more than a pastime for me for many years as triathlon was my primary hobby for a long time before I returned to sailing.
A house move this year, along with the obvious C19 issues have meant I'm well off form, but I'll be picking it back up in winter (zwift virtual / indoor and outdoor cycling), and with the mild weather I'm going to do a few sea swims before the water gets too cold now we live on the coast again.
We also have paddleboards and do a bit of that in summer, but I'm tempted by the idea of a sailing dinghy in winter as it's more active but keeps me on the water.
A house move this year, along with the obvious C19 issues have meant I'm well off form, but I'll be picking it back up in winter (zwift virtual / indoor and outdoor cycling), and with the mild weather I'm going to do a few sea swims before the water gets too cold now we live on the coast again.
We also have paddleboards and do a bit of that in summer, but I'm tempted by the idea of a sailing dinghy in winter as it's more active but keeps me on the water.
dgadee
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Very interesting. And bachelors have limp handshakes, it seems: Get a grip: What your hand strength says about your marriage prospects and mortality
johnalison
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Cycling is one of many forms of exercise that are beneficial and don't damage the body, as is walking. I am very suspicious of forms of exercise that have no function in themselves. Not only are they mind-numbing but people are inclined to do them intermittently or give them up. Just taking stairs instead of lifts, or walking just a little way to the shops are likely to do you more good than paying paying some corporate business for the privilege of getting sweaty once a week. Our daughter has managed to build running into her 50-yr old life and good luck to her, but she was always a bit odd. She did a 10k run before breakfast yesterday and then, surprise, surprise, didn't feel like driving an hour or so to visit her parents.
Donheist
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I started a fitness journey recently aged 44. In jan 2 2020 I weighed 25 stone 11 and couldn’t get in my aft cabin. Now 15 st 9 and nearly at goal.
Obviously mostly diet but once I shed ten stone I decided to get fit not least to fill the skin with muscle!
so I’ve self taught a lot of fitness. I now go to the gym 9 times a week but can’t when onboard for 6 weeks at a time.
some lessons from a recent fitness convert:
mobility is really important. If you’re feeling achy you just don’t want to move. You put things on shelves to avoid bending. I do yoga twice a week now but incorporating good stretching is really important. Watch a YouTube video. If you have the budget a deep tissue massage once a fortnight is your friend.
I never miss leg day. Good muscles are important. The best exercises are big compound movements - deadlifts, squats. Luckily there are loads of ways to replicate on a boat. A farmers carry is two 6 packs of mineral water from dock to transom. Leave the trolley. Bodyweight squats can be done anywhere but if you need more resistance hold the 6 pack of mineral water to your chest. If you need more but some resistance bands and tie the anchor to a strong point. Handle in each arm and press up.
Deadlifts are great ways to put your back out without getting the right form. Again, YouTube is your friend.
press-ups can be done anywhere. Once these are too easy bring the hands together .
biceps - variable amounts of mineral water bottles.
triceps - dips - the pulpit might work for these
abs - cushion on foredeck and lots of air bicycle kicks
For cardio - swim, bike, row or run. I find my obese youth has mullered my knees so it’s usually the bike for me. Although Ragusa appears to have an aerobics group…
chrishscorp
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Donheist
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Yes thank you. Needed to get done. If interested I made a little filmThat is quite some achievment
Buck Turgidson
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I had a back spasm while out single handed this year. Put a stop to my sailing season ? getting back to home port was an interesting 24hours as I could barely stand and the wind was up and down so some reefing required. It’s my own fault for having a very slack winter doing virtually nothing.
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Great message, especially the filtering message to reduce choices. At the end of the day though, its really about hiding temptation as individual choice is always there. I shed a lot of weight, similar method, carb and calorie counting with running, but it's back up again. There is a lot of psychology at play, if it was easy, there would not be such a big industry around weight loss.
Zing
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Well done. A tremendous achievement. I‘m on a keto diet too. It is far, far more though than just an anti-obesity strategy. Now as I am at my target weight it is for me an essential element of a healthy lifestyle, along with reduced alcohol and no seed oils, strength and aerobic exercise, sleep and stress management.
I disagree with your emphasis on calories in vs calories out. Some foods cause you to gain weight more than others of the same calorie content, though I realise it is undeniable that substantially fewer calories in than out has to mean weight reduction. The generally unappreciated issue is that the modern diet disrupts the ability of the body to self regulate its consumption of calories. If we didn’t eat the modern diet (essentially far too much of fructose, omega 6 oil and carbohydrates) then we wouldn’t have to worry about food choices and to constantly watch weight and calories. Our ancestors and traditional societies didn‘t diet and yet they were thin.
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It would not surprise me if the ruling elites were fat. The UK was deforested about a couple of thousand years before Christ. I bet those that benefited from the increase in farming productivity used the extra time to not fit demanding stuff and got fat.
Zing
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There's always a few...
You can do your own research quite easily. Here is a link from the National Portrait Gallery. 439 Soldiers,in WW1, mostly officers and therefore mostly middle aged or older and so born in the mid to late Victorian period, well before the current obesity and non-infectious disease epidemic started. Most of them you might describe as from the 'ruling elites' classes. Hardly a fatty there.
The Great War: Army uniforms - Portraits - National Portrait Gallery
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You are being selective, Henry the VIII and Queen Anne were fat, many fat people in history. I don’t think fat people is a modern thing. Your research is flawed if your conclusion is that it is a only a modern issue.
Victorian Fat Shaming: Harsh Words on Weight from the 19th Century | Mimi Matthews
Zing
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I didn't say there were not plenty of fat people in history. There were in fact lots. Just relatively far, far fewer than now.
Poignard
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Most of them probably didn't live long enough to get fat.
Zing
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You haven’t looked at the pictures have you? They have had lots of opportunities to get fat.
Poignard
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You would expect servicemen not to be fat. If they were allowed to become fat they wouldn't be much use at their job.
Regarding life expectancy, this shows how it has changed since the late 18th century.
United Kingdom: life expectancy 1765-2020 | Statista
newtothis
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I'm curious how they do the actuarial tables for people of my age or younger. I was born 1965, which give me another 15 or so years, according to that table. But how do they work that out when none of my cohort are yet 70. And that goes even more so for anyone younger. How do they know the average span for someone born in 2020 will be 81.15 years?